Chapter Eighty-Seven
Understandably Bitter
I knew I loved you before I met you
I think I dreamed you into life
I knew I loved you before I met you
I have been waiting all my life
(I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden)December 13th, 1978Initially, Mia wondered if the sharing of magic amongst members of the pack would
mean that some would be left depleted. As a stark contrast, however, they
somehow fuelled one another. Mia, James, and Sirius had better focus of their magic, and
Remus had never looked healthier.
Unfortunately, the circumstances surrounding his sudden leap away from Death's
door left the Order members suspicious of Remus, not the least of whom was Moody, who
agreed to take Sirius back as an Auror only to put him through hell for keeping secrets. To
compensate for his sacrifice at work, Sirius was greeted at home each night with a plate of
chocolate-covered éclairs from a Muggle pastry shop that Mia found whilst browsing for
Christmas presents.
It was not, however, the only gift that Sirius had been given by the suddenly
insatiable witch.
Peter's absence went beyond Remus's health crisis. When Remus inquired as to
Peter's whereabouts, Sirius's reply was, "Fuck him."
Mia had to be coy about rewarding her wizard for the crass verbal assault against
the person she hated most in this timeline, and though Sirius did not question the reason
he found his girlfriend wearing nothing but his leather jacket in their bed one night, the
tattoo of his name on her upper thigh prominently displayed, he seemed to appreciate the
gesture regardless.
Somehow, despite the war, despite the stress of suddenly being adults in a world
where they all wanted to cling a little longer to the innocence of adolescence, the Marauders
and Mia—or well... the pack—had never been happier as a whole.